Dr. Craig Mckenzie

Biography

Craig R. M. McKenzie is a Professor of Management Psychology at the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego. He holds the Jerome Katzin Chair in Corporate Governance and has made significant contributions to the fields of psychology and decision-making. His research primarily revolves around inference, uncertainty, and choice, focusing on understanding the errors individuals make in judgment. He adopts a normative Bayesian approach to explore how people's behaviors and judgments can be understood in terms of rational decision-making principles. Over his career, he has received several research awards including those from the National Science Foundation and the Operations Research Society of America, and is a member of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. McKenzie earned his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1994 from the University of Chicago. He has published extensively in prestigious journals, contributing to understanding how information structure influences decision-making processes.

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